Top 58 Quotes by Bette Davis

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

To look back is to relax one's vigil.

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.